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UPDATE – 109 persons injured after train derails in Egypt

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epa09143789 People stand near damaged carriages of a passenger train that was derailed in Toukh, Al Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt, 18 April 2021. According to the ministry of health, 97 people were injured when several wagons of a passenger train that was heading to the city of Mansoura came off the rails. EPA-EFE/KHALED ELFIQI

CAIRO (Reuters) – A passenger train on Sunday derailed near Cairo injuring at least 109 people, local authorities said, in what is the latest in a series of rail mishaps in Egypt.

More than 50 ambulances rushed to the site and moved the injured to three hospitals in the province, it said.

Some local media reports said some people had been killed in the accident.

At least 20 people were killed and nearly 200 were injured in March when two trains collided near Tahta, about 440 km (275 miles) south of Cairo.

(Reporting by Mahmoud Mourad; Editing by David Clarke)

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